The real estate investment company INVL Baltic Real Estate had a consolidated net profit of EUR 0.22 million in the first quarter of this year, 7.4% more than in the same period last year when the net profit was EUR 0.20 million.
The company’s consolidated equity at the end of March 2024 was EUR 23.733 million. Equity per share was EUR 2.94 and increased by 2.7 percent during the year, after considering the influence of paid dividends.
The value of INVL Baltic Real Estate’s investment properties at the end of the first quarter this year was EUR 42.612 million and was 16.53% more than a year earlier (when it was EUR 36.568 million).
“The company’s portfolio properties are maintaining a high level of occupancy, and both operating income and asset value are growing,” says Vytautas Bakšinskas, the real estate fund manager at INVL Asset Management, which manages INVL Baltic Real Estate.
The company’s consolidated revenue in the first quarter of 2024 increased 21.2% from the same period last year to EUR 1.05 million, of which consolidated rent income from own properties increased 28.5% to EUR 0.65 million. INVL Baltic Real Estate’s consolidated net operating income from its properties was EUR 0.71 million and was 45.4% more than in January-March 2023.
Net operating income for INVL Baltic Real Estate’s largest portfolio property – the office building at Palangos Street 4 in the Vilnius Old Town with the Talent Garden Vilnius coworking space which the company operates – grew by 15.3% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same quarter of 2023 to EUR 0.40 million.
“During the first quarter, we continued intensive renovation work on the building at Vilniaus Street 37, which we plan to complete in the last quarter of this year. We are working actively on the design of the renovation of the Pramogų Bankas building and are also continuing design works for the planned reconstruction of the buildings at the intersection of Palangos Street and Vilniaus Street,” Vytautas Bakšinskas notes.
Following repair and restoration work on the building at Vilniaus Street 37, INVL Baltic Real Estate will offer the market about 2,200 sq.m. of high-end leasable space in offices on the second and third floors and dining facilities on the first floor.
On 30 April this year, a general meeting of the shareholders of INVL Baltic Real Estate approved paying dividends of EUR 0.09 per share. The dividend yield is 4.5%, based on the company’s share price on Nasdaq Vilnius on 30 April.
About INVL Baltic Real Estate
INVL Baltic Real Estate owns real estate in Vilnius and Riga: office buildings in the Old Town of the Lithuanian capital on Vilniaus Street and in Šiaurės Miestelis, the Pramogų bankas and the 55-ha Dommo Logistics and Industrial Park by the juncture of highway A8 and the A5 Riga bypass road. The company’s properties had occupancies of 85% to 100% at the end of March 2024.
INVL Baltic Real Estate currently owns properties with a total area of 32,100 sq. m., the value of the real estate at the end of March 2024 was EUR 42.612 million.
Since its launch as a collective investment undertaking (on 22 December 2016), INVL Baltic Real Estate has been one of the Baltic real estate funds open to retail investors with the highest stable returns. The fund operates as a closed-ended investment company which is managed by INVL Asset Management, the leading alternative asset manager in the Baltics. INVL Baltic Real Estate will operate as a closed-end investment company until 2046, with extension possible for a further 20 years.
About INVL Asset Management
INVL Asset Management is the leading Baltic alternative asset manager. We strive to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns to our investors while positively impacting our region’s economic development.
We are part of the Invalda INVL group with a track record spanning over 30 years. Our group manages EUR 1 billion of assets across multiple asset classes including private equity, forests and agricultural land, renewable energy, real estate as well as private debt. Our scope of activities also includes family office services in Lithuania and Latvia, management of pension funds in Latvia, and investments in global third-party funds. Further information www.invl.com/en/.
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